News

4/24/2018
Industrious and driven to entrepreneurship, 25-year-old mechanical engineering grad Justin Lozier ’17 invented TopaCan, “the most convenient ashtray in the world.” 

4/24/2018
In her first year as vice provost for faculty success, Beth Mitchneck has focused on building a sense of community among the university’s nearly 800 faculty members while helping them succeed in their research, instruction and professional development.

4/24/2018
A collaboration between Campus Recreation, the Wellness Center and the Exercise Physiology department, the Exercise is Medicine program teaches students how exercise can improve their overall well-being by providing them with 16 personal training sessions – free of charge.

4/20/2018
Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura was on campus recently to deliver this year’s Tripathy Endowed Memorial Lecture and to receive an honorary doctorate from UMass Lowell.

4/20/2018
A dozen civil and environmental engineering majors created their own senior capstone class to take on the challenge of designing home sanitation systems for a community in Haiti. The students traveled to Haiti to learn more about the people and local conditions.

4/3/2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will address graduates at the May 19 UMass Lowell commencement ceremony at the Tsongas Center. U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, who became the first woman in 25 years to represent Massachusetts in Congress when she was elected in 2007, will be presented with the Chancellor's Medal in recognition of her tireless work for her district.

3/28/2018
Nearly five years after Dic Donohue was critically injured during the manhunt following the Boston Marathon bombings, the former Transit police officer opened up about his life now. Donohue is now working on his PhD at UMass Lowell.

3/27/2018
UMass Lowell students Gregory Montemurro and David Seybert, through their startup True to You, plan to resecure mobile technologies by using unique personal identifiers such as facial recognition, or biometrics, combined with in-house blockchain, and the cloud to eliminate the possibility of individual’s accounts being hacked.

3/26/2018
Nicola Benyahia travels around the world, speaking about her experience as part of the Families for Life organization she helped found to raise awareness about extremism on the internet. She was the keynote speaker at a UMass Lowell conference Friday about online recruitment by extremist groups.

3/8/2018
Senior forward Jahad Thomas not only posted huge numbers during his career at UMass Lowell, he was also one of the most unique talents in college basketball.